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The next day, Dexter slyly arranges a meeting with Fowler. He somehow acquires a dead raccoon, drops it in the road and calls for it to be picked up. Fowler arrives on the scene and finds Dexter waiting for him. He explains to Fowler that he’s moving to a new place, and Fowler says he’s lived in the same house for over twenty years. This prompts Dexter to wonder why a man who didn’t move recently rented a moving van. Fowler determines that the raccoon was not run over because there are no tire marks or blood on the asphalt, so that means he was killed somewhere else and dropped there. Fowler throws the raccoon in the back of his truck and drives away.
Meanwhile, Dexter’s co-workers investigate a grisly murder scene. In the middle of a park, there is a severed head with the eyes and tongue cut out, and they determine that those actions happened post-mortem. Quinn tells Deb she’s welcome to crash at his place after hearing her talk about how many people are staying in her small apartment. She brushes him off. A local cop approaches Deb and tells her it looks like a cult killing, and that she thinks the tongue and eyes were cut out as a message: you didn’t see anything, you won’t say anything. She also points out that the candles and icons surrounding the head on the ground suggest cult involvement, and she says she knows this because it’s her neighborhood and that if it was indeed a cult killing, they probably used a machete. Deb thanks her in a rudely sarcastic manner, not really considering what she’s just been told. The body is then found on the opposite end of the park.
Dexter is at home, searching the internet for more information about Boyd Fowler. Deb returns home and talks to him, and he seems frazzled and exhausted. He has set up an appointment with a grief counselor for the kids the next day. She reassures him that everything will be okay, and reminds him that she’s there for him and the kids too. Dexter goes to bed, and Deb decides to take Quinn up on his offer and goes to his apartment. He leans in to kiss her and she pushes him away and tells him she came over to sleep and nothing else. He says she is welcome as long as she wants and whenever she wants and he’ll keep his fingers off of her.
The next morning, Dexter cooks breakfast for the kids. Astor accidentally sets the table for four and says that her mother should be there. She says she wants to go back home, and Cody yells at them both and says he hates when they fight. The kids both leave the room. Over at Quinn’s apartment, the conversation is much different. “We have sex one day and then…” he says, but he’s cut off by Deb who claims they never had sex. She heads to work to find Masuka doing Dexter’s work, trying to find out just what kind of weapon was used to sever the head. Deb suggests a machete. As it turns out, that’s exactly what it was.
Masuka, Quinn and Deb head out to a new crime scene, where Deb once again meets the local cop from the earlier crime scene. Deb tells her she was right about the machete and now seems to trust her. There’s a body on the floor on a house with a shotgun wound to the head. Quinn picks up a photo from the table and notices that the woman in a photo with this man was the woman from earlier in the park and guesses it’s a murder/suicide. There are no icons and gold at this crime scene like there were in the park, which may suggest otherwise.
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